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Revising Racial Capitalism:

The current article is severely underdeveloped and needs extensive revision to provide clarity and more depth to the topic of racial capitalism. There is a wordy lead and just one main section labelled “History.” I will be revising the lead and existing “History” section, as well as adding multiple other sections to add detail and nuance to this important topic. Racial capitalism is an incredibly relevant concept describing how race and capitalism are interrelated, with capitalism surviving by exploiting people of other races, particularly Black people. The topic of racial capitalism has also been discussed in academic literature of many disciplines and thus revisions to the current Wikipedia article are necessary to accurately reflect its importance in scholarly sources.

Detailed Proposed Revisions:

Lead:

The lead needs to be shortened and revised to include a summary of the article. Much of its current information can be moved to my proposed new section of “Origins.”

Origins:

This section will include much of the information that is currently in the lead. It will primarily discuss how the concept was coined and how Robinson described racial capitalism initially. Relevant sources are below:

Leong, Nancy. 2013. “Racial Capitalism.” Harvard Law Review 126 (8): 2151–2226.

Melamed, Jodi. 2015. “Racial Capitalism.” Critical Ethnic Studies 1 (1): 76–85. https://doi.org/10.5749/jcritethnstud.1.1.0076.

Robinson, Cedric J. 1983. Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition. University of North Carolina Press.

Robinson, Cedric J. Cedric J. Robinson: On Racial Capitalism, Black Internationalism, and Cultures of Resistance. Edited by H. L. T. Quan. Pluto Press, 2019. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvr0qs8p.

“Three Tensions in the Theory of Racial Capitalism - Julian Go, 2021.” n.d. Accessed September 16, 2021. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0735275120979822.

History:

The current section is choppy and includes subsections on the 17th and 20th centuries. I would like to do additional research provide an overview of the history of racial capitalism over the years, starting from the slave trade to present-day disparities. Relevant sources are below:

Laster Pirtle, Whitney N. 2020. “Racial Capitalism: A Fundamental Cause of Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic Inequities in the United States.” Health Education & Behavior 47 (4): 504–8. https://doi.org/10.1177/1090198120922942.

Pulido, Laura. 2016. “Flint, Environmental Racism, and Racial Capitalism.” Capitalism Nature Socialism 27 (3): 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2016.1213013.

Williams, Eric. Capitalism and Slavery. University of North Carolina Press, 1994. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469619491_williams.

Scope and implications:

I would like to make connections between the concept of racial capitalism and other relevant themes. In academic literature, racial capitalism has been discussed in the context of social inequities, ranging from environmental justice issues to COVID-19 disease disparities, and I would like to discuss those issues in detail through this section. Relevant sources are below:

Clarno, Andy. 2017. Neoliberal Apartheid: Palestine/Israel and South Africa After 1994. University of Chicago Press.

“Geographies of Race and Ethnicity II: Environmental Racism, Racial Capitalism and State-Sanctioned Violence - Laura Pulido, 2017.” n.d. Accessed September 16, 2021. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0309132516646495.

Heynen, Nik, and Megan Ybarra. 2021. “On Abolition Ecologies and Making ‘Freedom as a Place.’” Antipode 53 (1): 21–35. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12666.

Johnson, Walter, and Robin D. G. Kelley. 2018. Race Capitalism Justice. MIT Press.

Laster Pirtle, Whitney N. 2020. “Racial Capitalism: A Fundamental Cause of Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic Inequities in the United States.” Health Education & Behavior 47 (4): 504–8. https://doi.org/10.1177/1090198120922942.

Pellow, David, and Jasmine Vazin. 2019. “The Intersection of Race, Immigration Status, and Environmental Justice.” Sustainability 11 (14): 3942. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11143942.

Pulido, Laura. 2016. “Flint, Environmental Racism, and Racial Capitalism.” Capitalism Nature Socialism 27 (3): 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2016.1213013.

“Reimagining ‘Justice’ in Environmental Justice: Radical Ecologies, Decolonial Thought, and the Black Radical Tradition - Laura Pulido, Juan De Lara, 2018.” n.d. Accessed September 16, 2021. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2514848618770363.

Links:

I will be adding a link to “Racial Capitalism” to the following articles: “Capitalism,” “Urban Ecology,” “Racial Equality,” “Environmental Justice,” “Class Conflict,” and “Slave Trade.” I will also be adding links to the “Capitalism” and “Urban Equality”articles within the “Racial Capitalism” article since they are not currently included. The article currently receives about 80 pageviews per day and adding links to related articles, especially “Capitalism” will dramatically increase the pageviews that “Racial Capitalism” receives.